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It's a little bit like McCarthy being retroactively proved marginally in the ballpark because the Venona papers uncovered Soviet infiltration.
by Apocryphon 4y ago
It's a little bit like McCarthy being retroactively proved marginally in the ballpark because the Venona papers uncovered Soviet infiltration.
- msbarnett 4y agoIt strikes me as even more tenuous than that because you could just as easily say “ah well there were no zodiac murders post-D&D, so obviously role playing slakes rather than inflames the psychopathic mind” or something.
- Apocryphon 4y agoTo be fair, I said "connected", which could mean almost anything- not specifically "caused." It's interesting that if this Doerr theory is true, that means Zodiac really did resemble pop cultural conceptions of him and other Zodiac-inspired fictional killers: a geek, interested in nerdy fantasy hobbies once considered the province of social misfits. But then again, the occult-steeped tone of the letters and the ciphers themselves already gave that impression.
- poopnugget 4y ago[flagged]
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- tptacek 4y agoThe Venona papers didn't put McCarthy remotely in the ballpark. It's not as if the premise of Soviet infiltration was controversial; it was universally understood to be happening.